The Stop Deportation Network are having a benefit and info night on Saturday, 25th April. Proceeds will go to funding campaigning and direct action against deportations and charter flights.

Films will include shorts of the Tinsley blockade and other actions and interviews with Iraqi deportees conducted in Iraqi Kurdistan after they were deported. Speakers will include Dashti Jamal of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees.

According to a report of "The Times" today, a joint Anglo-French detention centre is being planned for Calais to hold hundreds of migrants gathering near the Channel port.

As the report continues, "Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister, disclosed proposals to tackle the surge of migrants, many from Afghanistan and Iraq, at Channel ports hoping for a new life in Britain. "

Anti-deportation campaigners protested at Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport, this morning against the deportation of a Brighton family who the Home Office is trying to remove to Algeria.

A family of Algerian asylum seekers were taken from their home in Hove to Yarl’s Wood detention centre at 6.30am on the morning of Wednesday 11th pending deportation. The Home Office have booked a flight at 8.40am Tuesday morning (BA 895) and plan to remove them to Algeria.

Since the British courts rejected a recent Country Guidance case that presented a wealth of evidence that asylum seekers forcibly returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo risk being persecuted by the authorities, the Home Office has stepped up its attempts to deport people to that country.